Dixie Carter starred as Julia Sugarbaker on TV's "Designing Women."Entertainment Tonight is reporting that actress Dixie Carter, best-known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker on TV's "Designing Women," has died at age 70.

"This has been a terrible blow to our family," ET quotes her husband, Hal Holbrook, as saying. "We would appreciate everyone understanding
that this is a private family tragedy. Thank you."

"People have talked, but it hasn't come to anything," Carter says.
"We're all in touch with each other, and we love each other very much.
We have such disparate careers. It would be so much fun to pull that
together, but it would be very hard."